16 August 2024
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By AFP/Mohammad Mazed and Tanbirul Miraj RiponRohingya refugee Shonjida has endured years of boredom, misery and violence in Bangladesh -- but last month's overthrow of autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina has given her fresh hope for the future.Aroun...
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By AFP/Wafaa EssalhiSince war began in Gaza on October 7, Israel's military campaign has received rolling coverage on domestic television, with just one notable aspect missing -- the Palestinians living, and dying, under the bombs.Every night during...
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By AFP/Julie JammotMeta launched AI chatbots voiced by Hollywood celebrities including Judi Dench and John Cena on Wednesday, betting its billions of users are eager to embrace artificial intelligence.At the company's annual product launch event, CEO...
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By AFPRussia's parliament Wednesday voted to back a bill banning the adoption of Russian children in countries that allow gender reassignment, the latest in a series of ultra-conservative social measures.Moscow has long portrayed itself as a bulwark...
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By UN NewsThe UN agency that supports Palestine refugees, UNRWA, is the only “outpost of hope” left in the hellscape that is Gaza, the UN Secretary-General told a high-level ministerial meeting on Thursday in New York.The world has “failed the people...
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By AFPThe world's oceans are close to becoming too acidic to properly sustain marine life or help stabilise the climate, a new report said on Monday.The report by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) details nine factors that are c...
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By AFP/Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOISAs wars rage worldwide, with civilian casualties a daily occurrence, critics of the United Nations say the body is failing at its most basic job, while experts warn the organization is being scapegoated for things that...
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By AFPSpain on Tuesday adopted a target for 81 percent of its electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030 to meet its climate goals.In the plan, adopted by ministers and sent to the European Commission, the government committed to reducing gre...
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By AFP/Anne-Marie ProvostThe white, feathery lines behind airplanes that look like bits of harmless cloud are anything but, warn experts, who say they could have a greater environmental impact than the aviation sector's CO2 emissions.The condensation...
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By AFPThe European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said Thursday that it expected Lebanon's economy to decline further in 2024 because of geopolitical turmoil.Lebanon's economy will contract by one percent in 2024, the EBRD predicted, heavily...
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By AFP/Romain FONSEGRIVESSifting through the smartphones of dozens of US teens who agreed to share their social media content over the course of a year, filmmaker Lauren Greenfield came to a somber observation.The kids are "very, very conscious of th...
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By AFP/Issam AhmedIn the single week that world leaders convened for high-level UN talks in New York, nearly 100,000 water bottles' worth of microplastics swirled through the city's air, posing known and still unknown risks to human health."We talk a...
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